Robert Griffin III will wear a knee brace all year

Posted by Michael David Smith on July 29, 2013, 12:41 PM EDT

AP

Washington quarterback Robert Griffin III says he will wear a brace on his surgically repaired knee for the entire 2013 season.

Griffin was asked after practice today whether he’ll protect his knee with a brace for the rest of his career, and although he said he hasn’t decided that, he has already decided to wear a brace for at least this year.

“I don’t know if I’ll wear it forever. I know I’ll wear it for the rest of the season,” Griffin said.

Griffin also wore a brace throughout the 2010 season at Baylor after tearing his ACL in 2009. But he took the brace off for his Heisman Trophy-winning 2011 season.

“After the first time I had the injury I wore it for a year and I thought I’d wear it for the rest of my life,” Griffin said. “The next year came around and I took it off, won a Heisman and did a whole lot of other things. It just depends on how the leg feels. I don’t plan on wearing it past this season, but it all depends on what happens.”

The brace may slow Griffin down slightly, but if it prevents him from tearing his ACL a third time, wearing it is the right decision.

SMH reading all of this hate in the comments. You guys are sad, seriously. Only the dredges of humanity would spout their mouths off and wish injury on others who have done nothing wrong. People are actually posting here and honestly wishing this role model gets seriously re-injured. Pathetic.

Hate all you want. You can just eat crow AGAIN at the end of this year. You all sure love setting yourself up to not only work bad now but to have to eat your words AGAIN in but a few more weeks.

The knee brace is not prophylactic at all. It is purely a psychological maneuver. If you’ve ever out one on, you know that they can’t be tightened up too much, or extend too long beyond the joint, or they get in the way and really irritate the skin.

The lever arm- how far up and down the leg it extends- is thus always too short to absorb any blows, because then brace only fastens to skin, not the bone underneath it. Yiour skin slides all over the surface of the joint- feel your own knee with your hands and move the surface tissue around. To really protect, the brace would have to extend down to your ankles and up to the top of the thigh to offer partial support. If RGIII got hit hard, the brace would rotate around on his leg in a moment of inertia, not cling to and restrict the absorption of force by the joint.

The brace will almost surely not help one bit in any kind of actual athletic action. It does protect a bit if you are just strolling down the street.

Right. The alone will not prevent an ACL tear. It’s called security layers. The brace, sliding, throwing the ball away and running out of bounds collectively prevent injury. Dumb comment by a reader to say the brace won’t prevent ACL…..duh.

Slimeball. Where’s the story of him sending Farve-like texts to the Hooters waitress on his wedding day?
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I would guess there’s no story on it because there’s no story. The waitress admitted she made the whole thing up over two weeks ago.

Are Redskins fans mad at Shanahan? I would be, they finally get a legitimate franchise quarterback and his carelessness might’ve cost him a couple years of his career. They should abandon the option and let him be a pocket passer, but Shanahan is afraid to lose his job, I think, so griffin will play 4 full games before getting an injury.

As usual, very few intelligent people on this comment board. The field is fixed, will be resodded in Nov. Griff is used to the brace and barely slows him down. As another has said, the Hooters girl story has been completely shot down as false. Wishing injury or harm on anyone is bad karma and makes one a terrible person. Griffin had the greatest statistical season for a rookie ever. Look it up, numbers don’t lie

Philip Rivers still wears his after his ’08 knee injury. I don’t know if Brady still wears his, but I know he was a firm believer in them years ago, and encouraged others to wear them as well, so no surprise.

LMAO at you clowns and haters talking weak smack, you all must be real worried…lol
And for you Cowpie fans I’m going enjoy THOU terrorizing your team for the next decade…..and you Stupid clueless Seachicken fans next really be nervous, just thank your lucky stars you played an injured WB in the playoffs last season cause you we’re on your way to herringbone blown out by a guy on one leg till he reunited it.
SUCKAS!

jessejames182 says:
Jul 29, 2013 5:31 PM
Are Redskins fans mad at Shanahan? I would be, they finally get a legitimate franchise quarterback and his carelessness might’ve cost him a couple years of his career. They should abandon the option and let him be a pocket passer, but Shanahan is afraid to lose his job, I think, so griffin will play 4 full games before getting an injury.
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Just dumb. The entire fanbase was very upset about the way the entire situation with Griffin’s knee was handled, though it’s hard to place all the blame on Shanahan. Most importantly, it’s an inarguable fact that pocket passers get hit more often than scrambling quarterbacks. Brady, Luck, both Mannings, and Ryan all took over twice as many hits in their rookie season than Griffin did. The Third simply had the misfortune of a 300 lb Haloti Ngata landing awkwardly on his leg on one of those hits.

Additionally, all the talk about Shanahan playing for his job is absurd. He took the oldest (and least talented) roster in the NFL and turned it into the second youngest starting roster in the league. In his three years as coach, he has drafted more starters than any other team in the league. Shanahan was hired with the idea that he would be able to make the playoffs within five years, instead he did it in three.

The only reason Griffin stayed in the game was because Griffin himself convinced Shanahan he was fine. Granted, Mike should have taken more control and sat him: by not doing so he created a major problem, and deserves plenty of blame. However, trying to pin the injury on Shanny’s “selfishness” is simply ridiculous.